Shiply

The Shipley is a gallery in Gateshead. Through out my visit I saw a multiple of the ings such as Pottery. Glassware sculpture among many other things one.
There were quite a few pieces I really liked which includes a green bowl I found it quite interesting the colours and the way the be been placed the guy who did this piece was yasuda takeshi.
I also looked at quite a few sculptures while I was there and I love the detail of each piece an how smooth the sculptures looked. This is a place I will visit again.

Samantha parkhouse

Samantha is a fine art artist. The two paintings shes done is a portrate of a woman. One with open eyes and one with closed eyes.
For the tones of the face I think she has got them just right the tones and colours in the face are great and they stand out from the background. She has the shading and lighting just right. I really like these pieces.

Sean scully

The colours Sean Scully for he painting I looked at are; greens, blues, reds, pinks, orange and yellow. All in various shades. I think he might have chosen a base layer then hes made strips of colour going vertical and horisontal. All his lines apart from the main thinkgreen strip which is at different intavies through the painting has perfect crisp lines while that green line has one line that is blured. I find the fact that he has intentionaly left one side of the green is quite intresting. Why did he leave that particulay line blury? Why did he make the other lines so crisp? What was his throught process behind it? Whats the signifigance behind it? And why on that particular colour? He could have chosen and one of the colours he used but he chose that green.these were just some of the questions thatran through my head when I was looking at this piece. I realy like how each strip of colour over laps the one beneath it. Also the fact that each colour is a block colour so you can not see the colour underneath I think is one of the main reasons I like this piece and the fact that the lines are so straght exept one is quite facinating.

gayle watson

Her art piece has taken on a certon mental issue about the use of plastic bottles and the amount of bottles each family will throw away wach year. She took 500 bottles and filled them with water car oil. The car oil represents the amount used to create that particulat bottle. I find that this is quite intresting the fact that each family can use this many bottles and then throw them away with out a thought. The fact the each bottle uses about 1 3rd of oil to 2 3rds of water is a lot of oil to be using and then throwing away. She has chosen a good topic to get your head thinking about the amount of bottles that we can use and reuse befor throwing them away and buying more.
I like the fact she has used many different types of bottles aswell.

louis bennett

louis bennett made a series of three paintings. each painting is split ferly even through real life, fantisy and myths. he has painted this in such away that real and fantisy becomes a whole, which i find very clever its like one part always complements the other. i find that the more you look at any of the pieces you can always find something you missed that adds more to the paintings. i find the subjects hes painted intresting and the fact that hes painted something tha makes yu want to ask questions and makes you wonder.

william braithwaite

He works with repetitive shapes with using repeating forms he has been able to create someting in depth. Used a simple form to create something over and over again and has added more to each piece her done. In the piece ive been looking at hes used concret as one of the main materials in his pieces hes used. The repetive shapes and angles hes carved in to the concreat to show depth and shading which highlights and enhances the pieces which adds detail. With this work he has looked at the relationships between architecture nd sculpture and has created a conversation between the two which i think is obviouse in these pieces. I realy like these pieces i think it gives alot to the imagination.

kurt schwitters

Kurt schwitter was chosen to create a new wall in1947. In july 1947 he started the wall and six months later he died. He managed to compleat one part of the wall in this time.
I think its unusual, not something youd see now. But i think that other artists have taken insparation from this wall  and used similar shapes that are used in the wall in other artworks.  I find it intresting that the colours have stayed in the wall over the years since 1947 and they have not changed. I also like the way he has manipulated the materials in such a way that he has created different levels and protrusions in the wall tht just adds character to the whole piece.
The way they've built the wall is like who they build them now withbrick but with stones. Then it looks like theyve used cement over the out side of the wall which is where he started to add mettals, shapes and colours.

sofie layton

I went went tosee the heart of the mtter exhibition.
What I first looked at was the glass somes, which looked like they might have been blown and the hearts that have been produced look like they hve been 3d printed in plastic. What I find facinating is that they've been able to create all these different hearts that mimic what real hearts look like in different situations. The artist sofie layton has worked with phychologists, nurses, cardiolagists, surgens and other artists toproduce the detail capturing of the hearts. She has completed a series of screen printed diagrams of hearts. She has done a series of posters of different hearts. Each poster has words medican words in the background with certon words highlighted, describing the condition of the heart. She has taken the results from an ecg and certon words and images of hearts and screen printed them onto an old medical clothing screen. Throughout being in the exhibitions there is a voice speaking about their process she went through and all the information with noise of medical equipment in the background. The further we go along we saw some video with some music that made the video more intense.  Sofie layton collabarated with a photographer who photographed a person that has a heart condition looking at certin moments in his life.  Shes used LED light panels and screen printed images of an ultrasound of a heart and shes put up her voice talking about this.

I find all the work shes done for this exhibition is impressive. The amount of research to be able to recount some of it to  be able to record her research to involve it in the process. To be able to get the amount of detail in each heart that wasmade and the technical research for all the screen prints, I really liked this exhibition.

James maskrey 2018

James starts of by talking about what kinds of attributes that you might need for  being  an artist or in life: indurance, indever, resolution, enterprise. He then goes on to talk about his career and how he got started and where he went from there. He talked about taking a job as a glass blower and from then getting his degree. Working as a glass blower through his degree and how he improved himself after he had some criticism about his own work. He talked a lot about his experiences and opertutitys that came alone and took.
what it has been like and this shows something about what oppertunitys are out there. threw teaching working with other artists and in a production line among many others as long as you go out and get them.tells good storyes for when working with other artists. when hes talking his bodylanguage is open so you can see hes comfortable in what hes talking about which is one of the things that draws you in to keep listening which i like a lot. you dont get this with a lot f people. i find the fact he worked and teached with so many different people in different an amazing acomplishment as is shows a good artist in his skills when other people want to work with him and have his help with there artwrok.

arabella plouvles - photography 2018

Arabella plouvles

Arabella starts of her talk by talking about her work with in the Durham prison. at the time she was there the prison was being re built. she worked with the woman prisoners for a year while the place was being rebuilt. she describes what the prison was like when she was there what the women she worked with were like and how she used this in her work.
this piece of work she created she states she found cheep, small pieces but brightly coloured so she could create how she wanted the scene to be and then take images of this and then blow the images up so that the images was big.
she then went on to talk about taking pictures of students or other people and them not being all the way comfortable having there picture taken but when they have something else to focus on like a phone then they become much more natural and relaxed that when they didn't. they become unaware that their picture is being taken.
the last piece of work she talked about was the photos she took while working at a care home. she took pictures of the people living there, of them ant the space where they lived and the photos they had around them. the title of this work was Alzheimer's: a quite story. the way she explained this project is that around all these people in the care homes there were photos of that persons family but not the actual people. her work was to ask the questions about the people in the phots and the people that are surrounded by said photos but not knowing the answers to the questions that her photos asked. she developed 20 photos all together and they went into a exhibition.
I think that the way she shown her work was good. her presentation was accompanied by photos of her work.